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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Urgent problem with wtmpx Post 35325 by Peterh on Monday 7th of April 2003 11:05:45 AM
Old 04-07-2003
I am using SunOs 8.1. Below I add the output from the Acctcom -b WTMPX file. What puzzles me is all the root console. Perderabo if I understand want what your saying. You think maybe a remote login could be causeing this problem??


Code:
           root      console      01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00
           root      console      01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00
           root      console      01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00
           root      console      01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00
           root      console      01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00
           root      console      01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00
 ë       root      console      01:00:00 01:00:00     0.08 3404.80    0.0000
           root      console      01:00:00 10:14:29  33269.76    0.01    0.00
faxmodem   root      console      01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00
           root      console      01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00
           root      console      01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00
           root      console      01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00
           root      console      01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00
           root      console      01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00
           root      console      01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00
           root      ?            11:08:00 11:08:00     0.01 146566.48    0.00
           root      ?            01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00
           root      console      01:00:00 06:36:12  20172.80 40376.32    1.41
           root      console      01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00
           root      console      01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00
           root      console      01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00
           root      console      01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00
           root      console      01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00
           root      console      01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00
           16711680  console      01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00
           root      ?            01:00:00 01:00:00     0.01    0.01    0.00

 

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LEARN ABOUT POSIX

sysmsg

sysmsg(7D)							      Devices								sysmsg(7D)

NAME

       sysmsg - system message routing to console devices

SYNOPSIS

       /dev/sysmsg

DESCRIPTION

       The  file  /dev/sysmsg routes output to a variable set of console devices.  Writes to /dev/sysmsg are always directed to the system console
       /dev/console, and are in addition directed to a set of auxiliary console devices managed by consadm(1M).

       Only root has permission to write to this device.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsr			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Stable			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       consadm(1M), syslogd(1M) , attributes(5), console(7D)

SunOS 5.10							    13 Oct 1998 							sysmsg(7D)
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